School District No. 53 (Okanagan Similkameen) Board of Education Report We are off to a very positive school start for the 2017/18 school year, partly due to the positive financial position that the School District is in as well as all the staff additions and changes that are primarily due to the Supreme Court of […]

Shadow or miner working his claim? Titled Shadow Art

Keianna James, The 2017 /2018 BC High School Rodeo Queen Keianna James is 17 and is a grade 12 student at SOSS. She has been a member of the BC high school Rodeo association going on five years now. Keianna competes in the roping events, barrel racing, and pole bending. She says that she has […]

What a weekend! Thank you to all who were a part of the Fall Art Show & Sale! A host of volunteers, totalling about 300 person-hours from Friday to Sunday, worked incredibly hard to bring a fabulous show to fruition. The FASS opened from 3 to 9 p.m. on Saturday September 30. There was a […]

Lost in East Kelowna After one of our softball games we all went to Ron Robinson’s place for a buffet and a wee bit of a party.  I didn’t have anything to drink because I was driving so settled for coke.  It was a great party and around 1 in the morning I decided it […]

From:      ©Lin Brian Scoop the Poop! Everybody knows that all dogs have to poop. But some don’t seem to realize that they’re supposed to scoop. They walk their dogs because they don’t want it in their yard. Picking up and flushing to them seems so awfully hard. So they walk their dogs all around […]

From: Barbara Carstairs This week comes the forever close of wonderful Centennial R V Park. As an Oliver resident and taxpayer, I am extremely disappointed in the decision to replace it with a hotel. This should have been upgraded and made into a year round park bringing in revenue to the town from snowbirds. That […]